New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The Delhi High Court, on Thursday, refused to stop the Cockroach Janta Party's planned protest at Connaught Place on Thursday, 16 October, while it took on record the police's assurance that all steps would be taken to regulate and control the activity of the protesters.

The plea was being heard by a bench of Acting Chief Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Justice Sanjay Sharma. The plea sought directions from the court to the police to regulate the protest as per the existing law laid down by the Supreme Court.

The counsel for the petitioner said that traders who whose businesses are located in and around Connaught place would be "on the streets" if they lost another weekend to closures due to protest in central Del...